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00117··on Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read
If a reading is popularized due to this website, will you remove it?
00117··on Does anyone run Postgres without PgBouncer?
Can you add more on why Pgbouncer is limited in a multi-tenant environment?
00117··on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
Are you not just making it more expensive to acquire clean data, thus giving an edge to the megacorps with big funding?
00117··on Is giving people cash working? Six months of Denver's Basic Income Project
Mental health declined? As in, worsened? This sounds wrong.
00117··on GPT-Migrate converts repos from one lang/framework to another
It would be nice if it could estimate GPT usage costs with a dry-run.
00117··on OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over
Do we want to train the model during inference? I would think we want to be very particular about the data used to train - notably after OpenAI's notes on the subject.
00117··on ChatGPT's API is so good and cheap, it makes most text generating AI obsolete
What happens when you hit a guardrail because there was a politically-charged or socially-condoned phrase? What if the documents are potentially sensationalist news articles or Wikipedia articles with potentially-questionable topics?
00117··on Show HN: Duplicate Word Finder
When I press the cmd key on my mac on Chrome, all the text disappears.
00117··on Ask HN: Is anyone else trying to opt out of Equifax WorkNumber?
I'm on the 2nd hoop, which is submitting personal information and documents on their website.
00117··on QR Date – signed timestamps inside for verifying dates
Why is this true?
00117··on Top Paid LA Lifeguards Earned Up to $392k in 2019
Exactly. Swimming is not so hard and working this profession is not the same as operating at a competitive level.
00117··on Julia 1.6 Highlights
Julia is a competitor of R, hence the comparison.
00117··on Why Databricks Is Winning
Why does nobody discuss Apache Pulsar as a viable alternative?
00117··on I Made a Color Scheme for Programming Using Math
Could you please detail some of the math you used?
00117··on I Built a $7K/Month WordPress Plugin Because I Needed the Product
I think the logos for “The Brief” and “Inspiration” were mistakenly swapped.
00117··on The Role of Doubt in Design
“Disclaimer: Richard Feynman was a colossal misogynist. I have a hard time separating this fact from his contributions to science.”

I have heard that Socrates was fond of the young boys whom he taught. Why mention an irrelevant bias of one and not another? Is the point to condone behaviour that isn’t yet fully condoned by present society?

00117··on EU plans first satellite fleet to monitor CO2 in every country
Businesses becoming environmentally friendly sounds like a positive.
00117··on How to do hard things
~ T. S. Eliot
00117··on Trippy images were designed by AI to super-stimulate monkey neurons
How do all the commenters here know that the images are eliciting a fear response? The referenced study measures firing rates of visual neurons. It does not discuss ultimate emotional reactions.
00117··on Ask HN: What did you learn in 2018?
- Dove head-first into the fundamentals of distributed systems, applying all that I learned to solutions for scalability issues at work.

- Realized that the secret to promotion is that it’s all about making your superiors look good. This brought on even greater realizations about society in general and individuals in my life.

- The importance of work/life balance and that the “life” portion must involve taking good care of yourself.

- The value of being kinder to all those I see regularly. It’s easy to drop some of the positive interactions with those we’re comfortable with.

00117··on Programming in the Adult Entertainment Industry Is Broken
Yes, we have a low senior count and are always on the lookout for more.
00117··on Many Animals Can Count
Can we measure when he loses count by using many small scoops? I expect if his current bowl has passed a certain threshold of scoops he won't bother switching no matter how many scoops are going there.
00117··on Many Animals Can Count
How do you know the cat isn't merely opting for the bowl that most-recently had food put in? Can you please test this and get back to us?
00117··on Seeing an elephant is easier than describing one
An elephant never forgets.